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Could you not grow lettuce on the backs of sheep...

Today I acquired: 4 bags of manure free from here: Kent Equine Facilitated Learning CIC A greenhouse frame with no glass from my brother. A frame for growing runner beans made from galv CHS Tubeclamp and fittings. I made it for my Dad 20+ years ago but he can no longer garden. I'm planning on "growing things"! At 55 I'm a later starter. Next to get a bean trench dug in a sunny bit of the garden.

New patio might be cheaper... 😉

I'd listen to the advice or you could be doing Meibion Glyndŵr's job for them!🔥

Looks great to me. Floor first afaic. Better detail at wall to floor joint. I did mine like it and just put Correx on the tiled floor afterwards, taped on around the edges. Yes a bit of cleaning up but then I'm time rich

Plus it's somewhere for him to proudly fly the English flag and attract even more unwelcome attention from his neighbours!

EDIT: With thanks to @TonyTfor making me realise my mistake. I got my diversity and discrimination mixed up. Diversity is diversity. As Tony said discrimination has now become selectivity. Just goes to show you can get near 100% on your 18th (which is just reading a book) and still know f*** all. In my defence I am drinking a lot of late...

Could he say concrete in a scaffold pole nice and plumb and attach his flue to that?

Beware the Christmas dinner effect! It's all gone pc now with regard to overcurrent protective devices and say RCDs on the same circuit. Diversity between devices in that context is now know as selectivity 😂

In your words back in 2021: My Willis heater UFH was recently commissioned and within a few days the trades were asking for the heat to be turned down. We have no controls for it so it was turned off. A week later, in freezing conditions it was still pleasantly warm inside. Clearly it was functioning then. What changed since, who else f***ed about with it? Sorry, I just can't stop laughing! 😂

Thinking about it my Triton Body Dryer has the same deal in it if you want to run it and a leccy shower from the same cable.

Best I can find at the mo. Relay on the left translates as "receiver priority" on the right "no priority". I'll try and find it in English

Also called an intensity relay that: The priority relay is designed to prevent overloading of the building's installation due to the simultaneous activation of many large power consumers (e.g. a flow heater).The coil of the ED183 priority relay is connected in series to the receiver with priority.When this receiver is switched on, an output contact opens and the switch on the receiver switches off without priority. Bioenergy switch: • automatic disconnection of the supply voltage (phase cable) from the receiver or group of receivers, in the case of detection of no load, • automatic operation - disconnection of the power supply for 3 seconds when detecting no load or switching off the receiver, monitoring of the state of the powered circuit and re-application of the supply voltage after detecting that the receiver is turned on (electricity consumption) • manual operation (switching by means of a switch) - the voltage is supplied to the receiver continuously, without monitoring the load condition, • parameters of the output relay: 1NO 16 A 250 V AC AC1, • voltage monitoring the state of the receiving circuit: 15 V DC. also suitable for electronic flow heaters Output: 1 NC contact, 250 V / 1 A AC-1 rated current range: up to 39 A Relay operating current: 3.1?And?5.7 A flow heater: up to 27 kW

So who closed the valve?

Just putting it out there as I'm trying to get my head round where I am with it all. The oil boiler is currently sat in the otherwise unheated utility. 4" block ling outer wall with a couple of large, single glazed windows, one DG window and a double glazed door. Seems mad to be pumping heat into that space where we're not living. The orange circle is the position of the HW cylinder that sits in the insulated loft space under the pictured, SW facing hip. SWMBO has a hankering for a pantry and we've discussed bringing he kitchen forward into what is currently covered external space where the hot tub is at the mo. Plan was to build a stud wall where the blue lines are. A thought here to, instead of a pantry make a mini plant room. Move the HW cylinder there plus any solar tank. That along with a UFH manifold. I suppose the first thing would be to move the kitchen "out" to line up with the lounge wall and end up with a functional "mini" kitchen whilst I gut/dig down the original. A slight bug in this plan is the kitchen floor is 100mm higher than the nominal floor level in the rest of the house. It all needs digging up and reinstating with a good chunk of insulation underneath and UFH. ? The losses here must be incredible. Sitting in the lounge with the 2kW fan heater on AND the 2kW oil filled rad. Still bloody freezing! Slowly getting warm.

Just putting it out there as I'm trying to get my head round where I am with it all. Oil is turned off as I'm pretty low on it and baulking at the prices for filling the tank at the moment. Living in two room heated by electric heaters. The study retains heat OK and is the warmest room in the house. The oil boiler is currently sat in the otherwise unheated utility. 4" block ling outer wall with a couple of large, single glazed windows, one DG window and a double glazed door. Seems mad to be pumping heat into that space where we're not living. The orange circle on the plan below is the position of the HW cylinder, that sits in the insulated loft space under the pictured, SW facing hip. SWMBO has a hankering for a pantry and we've discussed bringing the kitchen forward into what is currently covered external space where the hot tub is at the mo. Plan inside was to build a stud wall where the blue lines are, parallel to the "stairs" wall. A thought here to, instead of a pantry, make a mini plant room. Move the existing HW cylinder there (red blob) plus any solar tank. That along with a UFH manifold. I suppose the first thing would be to move the kitchen "out" to line up with the lounge wall and end up with a functional "mini" kitchen whilst I gut/dig down the original. A slight bug in this plan is the kitchen floor is 100mm higher than the nominal floor level in the rest of the house. It all needs digging up and reinstating with a good chunk of insulation underneath and UFH. ? The losses here must be incredible. Sitting in the lounge with the 2kW fan heater on AND the 2kW oil filled rad. Still bloody freezing! Slowly getting warm.

Indeed. Watching my old man in his house on the nanny cam. Leaning down behind the sideboard to reach the TV socket right down low. Good chance of over balancing.

How are the block joints made airtight?

I'm in the market for a set of 3G patio doors. Yes the place is heat leaky like a sieve but I have to start somewhere. This as part of a lounge / diner knock through. Very rough dimns of the patio doors are 2030h x 2070w. The height will need to increase as the lounge floor is at the moment much too high compared to the dining room (floor), in fact there's a ramp. (It's a lot more than a simple knock through tbh). Ideally I'd like to up the window width to circa 2400mm but I'm not sure how wide the lintel is above. Should I look at "off the peg" or go bespoke once I have a size? I've heard 3G patio doors are rather heavy on the rollers?

What would happen if we just said b@ll@cks? Perhaps we'd get banned from Eurovision.

Ours is grill, oven, microwave.

Got a big Sanyo combi microwave. Our second one as the first just wore out. It was our primary oven for a long time. Think they're great personally.

Next time I'd just empty a can of ACF-50 into the box section then paint and insulate the outside.

I used a foam gun and I reckon it squirted 4 or 5' up the box from each end so it certainly filled it. You can do it with an extension tube. I could see up both ends of my box section.

Is this then going to be over insulated? I foam filled some 100x100x6 gate posts and they sweated like a bastard on the outside. Literally condensation running down the outside. I filled from both ends. They were freestanding outside though.